From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match2 Nov 2026
Mjällby are in real trouble now
Position 15, 7 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market2 Nov 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Alexander Lundin: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Mjällby have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market2 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mjällby they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Mjällby's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mjällby has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jacob Bergström and Mjällby agree another 3 years.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Mjällby
Abdullah Iqbal and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match31 Oct 2026
1‑3 to Malmo FF, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Ibrahim Adewale
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Uneasy
Market26 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mjällby they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad26 Oct 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jacob Bergström was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Axel Norén falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tom Pettersson, and the manager let it.
Match24 Oct 2026
Mjällby caught on 88 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Öster scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Oct 2026
8 new faces, and Mjällby are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Mjällby told Jonathan Muzinga something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Uneasy
Market19 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mjällby is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mjällby this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Axel Norén falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I did not go to FF Jaro to sit and watch. I want to come back to Mjällby and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A mark of 7.11, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Axel Norén asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Adam Forsberg was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Mjällby dressing room was either.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
Every touch weighed, every quote parsed, every mistake replayed. Some players grow into that; some are quietly finished by it; nobody knows which until afterwards.
Match17 Oct 2026
Point won or two lost for Mjällby?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Brommapojkarna? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Uneasy
Market12 Oct 2026
Hugo Fagerberg has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mjällby they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Abdullah Iqbal was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Teo Helge falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I watch every Mjällby game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at JIPPO runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Axel Norén asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market12 Oct 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Mjällby, another week without a signature from Tom Pettersson.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Nobody at Mjällby will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market12 Oct 2026
Axel Norén linked with a move away
The name of Axel Norén keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mjällby say nothing, which says plenty.
Market12 Oct 2026
3 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Mjällby could get for him.
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Crisis
Match5 Oct 2026
Mjällby sink to position 14
5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market5 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market5 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mjällby is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mjällby this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Jeppe Kjær beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Mjällby training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Axel Norén is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Mjällby are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Match3 Oct 2026
0‑2 to IFK Värnamo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Uneasy
Market28 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Viktor Gustafson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Mjällby the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Mjällby
Abdullah Iqbal and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match26 Sep 2026
At last: Mjällby win one
6 matches without a win, and then this, against Degerfors. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Mjällby
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Axel Norén was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
20 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Match26 Sep 2026
Three points for Mjällby, 1‑0 the final word against Degerfors in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Viktor Gustafson, and the manager let it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.79 on the card, and the Mjällby support went home talking about one name.
In brief
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Squad
8 new faces, and Mjällby are still learning each other
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Jacob Bergström knocks on the manager’s door
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market21 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jacob Bergström will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Mjällby the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match19 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win for Mjällby
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Mjällby are no longer polite ones.
Match19 Sep 2026
Mjällby are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 6 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mjällby this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Robin Wallinder
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Villiam Granath was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.13. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Match19 Sep 2026
A point taken on 92 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
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Crisis
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Jacob Bergström: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Mjällby have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Sep 2026
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match12 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Mjällby's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mjällby has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.41 for the rest of it.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Hugo Fagerberg has agreed terms with Helsingborg for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Market14 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mjällby is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match12 Sep 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Mjällby
5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Olle Lövdahl arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Olle Lövdahl has, at Mjällby, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Mjällby
Abdullah Iqbal and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ibrahim Adewale falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market7 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Jeppe Kjær has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Mjällby will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Mjällby than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
Market7 Sep 2026
The Axel Norén story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Axel Norén signs something — a contract at Mjällby or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market7 Sep 2026
The clock does Jacob Bergström’s negotiating for him
4 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Mjällby could ask drops and the wages Jacob Bergström can ask rise.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Alexander Lundin has written the date down.
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Crisis
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market31 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mjällby is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Al-Fateh keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Mjällby
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Mjällby are no longer polite ones.
Market31 Aug 2026
Utsikten come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Mjällby did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Robin Wallinder was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Al-Ittihad have kept their man, and Mjällby go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match29 Aug 2026
Mjällby are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
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Crisis
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put Mjällby out
Out, 1‑2 to IFK Norrkoping, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.31 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market24 Aug 2026
The deal that would have taken Ludwig Małachowski Thorell to Brommapojkarna has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Mjällby with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Viktor Gustafson delivers — 7.58
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Viktor Gustafson scored, was marked 7.58, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Viktor Gustafson has come up in conversations Mjällby were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with VPS, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match22 Aug 2026
Mjällby come up short against AIK
AIK left with the points after a 3‑5 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
$980.0K from Västerås SK for Elliot Stroud. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
Market17 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Ludwig Małachowski Thorell had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market17 Aug 2026
BK Hacken come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Mjällby did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ludwig Małachowski Thorell did not need any: 8.62, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Mjällby sell a favourite for $980.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Elliot Stroud was one of the reasons people came, and $980.0K does not replace that by itself.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Window shuts: 14 in, 25 out at Mjällby
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 14 arrived, 25 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at FC Copenhagen is saying, and nobody at Mjällby is enjoying the guessing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Mjällby
Robin Wallinder and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Crisis
Market10 Aug 2026
$2.0M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
Öster come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Mjällby did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Mjällby people have started saying his name in the past tense.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $2.0M sale of Jesper Gustavsson
He is going to IFK Goteborg, the club has $2.0M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The deal with FC Copenhagen is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Viktor Gustafson has agreed terms with Malmo FF for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Robin Wallinder and Mjällby agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Mjällby
Elliot Stroud and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match8 Aug 2026
2‑3 to IK Sirius, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad3 Aug 2026
287 appearances across 16 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Mjällby know exactly what they have.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Jesper Gustavsson has come up in conversations Mjällby were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Mjällby
Abdoulie Manneh and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Mjällby training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Axel Norén is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Mjällby asked and Al-Ittihad said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Jeppe Kjær
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad3 Aug 2026
7 new faces, and Mjällby are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.